Some of the world’s top behavioral addiction experts have just published a new study “Frequency of use, moral incongruence, and religiosity and their relationships with self‐perceived addiction to pornography, internet use, social networking and online gaming.” Don’t let its long-winded academic title fool you. It powerfully shatters one of the most pernicious myths that pro-porn […]
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Journal of Behavioral Addictions Volume/Issue: Volume 9: Issue 2 Authors: Gemma Mestre-Bach 1 , Gretchen R. Blycker 2 , 3 and Marc N. [email protected] 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2020.00015 Abstract With the global expansion of the COVID-19 pandemic, social or physical distancing, quarantines, and lockdowns have become more prevalent. […]
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YBOP COMMENTS: Unique study comparing female porn users to non-users. Looks like addiction to the authors: The results indicate that the viewing of the pornographic clip (vs. control clip) causes an activation of Brodmann’s area 45 of the right hemisphere (BA 45, pars triangularis). An effect also appears between the level of self-reported consumption and […]
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Wang, J., & Dai, B. (2020). Journal of Behavioral Addictions J Behav Addict, Sep 18, 2020, from https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2006/aop/article-10.1556-2006.2020.00059/article-10.1556-2006.2020.00059.xml DOI: https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2020.00059 Abstract Background and aims Impaired behavioral inhibitory control (BIC) is known to play a crucial role in addictive behavior. However, research has been inconclusive as to whether this is also the case for cybersex addiction. […]
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Introduction (as it appears on Page #1) Legal counsel advised us to create these pages, which document Nicole Prause’s extensive campaign targeting those who point out possible harms of porn use or issues in the porn industry. “Sunshine” protects the community Prause harasses by preserving facts and permitting visitors and journalists to understand the truth […]
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Reality Check about Porn Addiction and sexual satisfaction Regardless of what you may read in some journalistic accounts, multiple studies reveal a link between porn use and sexual performance problems, relationship and sexual dissatisfaction, and reduced brain activation to sexual stimuli. Sexual satisfaction is so important in our lives. Let’s start with sexual dysfunctions. Studies […]
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COMMENTS: A review by addiction experts concludes that pornography-use disorder is a condition that may be diagnosed with the ICD-11 category “other specified disorders due to addictive behaviors”. In other words, compulsive porn use looks like other recognized behavioral addictions, which include gambling and gaming disorders. Excerpts from the paper: Note that we are not […]
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Bőthe, Beáta, István Tóth-Király, Mark D. Griffiths, Marc N. Potenza, Gábor Orosz, and Zsolt Demetrovics. Addictive Behaviors (2020): 106603. Highlights PPU had positive, moderate links to sexual function problems in males and females. FPU had negative, weak links to sexual function problems in males and females. FPU and PPU should be discussed separately concerning its […]
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Addictive Behaviors Available online 31 July 2020, 106591 In Press, Journal Pre-proof LijunChena, XiaohuiLua, BeátaBőthe, XiaoliuJiang, ZsoltDemetrovics, Marc.N.Potenza Highlights PPCS-18 yielded strong psychometric properties among Chinese men. The network analytic approach corroborated the six factors of the PPCS-18. PPCS-18 demonstrated high generalizability across cultures. PPCS-18 demonstrated high generalizability across community and subclinical men. PPCS-18 may […]
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Kraus, S. W., Gola, M., Grubbs, J. B., Kowalewska, E., Hoff, R. A., Lew-Starowicz, M., Martino, S., Shirk, S. D., & Potenza, M. N. (2020).Validation of a Brief Pornography Screen across multiple samples, Journal of Behavioral Addictions J Behav Addict, . Abstract Background and Aims To address current gaps around screening for problematic pornography use […]
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